Potential Brickell Key Supertall Exempted From UDRB Review

A new development on Brickell Key would not need to have a hearing before Miami’s Urban Development Review Board, according to a letter issued by Miami’s Department of Zoning.

The Department of Zoning letter was issued in February 2022 to a Greenberg Traurig land use attorney, who had requested a zoning verification request for property at 750 Claughton Island Drive.

A City Attorney’s Office Memorandum dated September 11, 2000 was cited as the basis for the decision. No additional reviews or public hearings, including Urban Development Review Board review, is required for new development within Brickell Key, the memo stated.

A potential project would still need to be reviewed by Miami’s Planning and Zoning Department to ensure that it complies with Brickell Key’s Special Planned Development Application, the letter said.

Up to 650 dwelling units are permitted to be built on Brickell Key (3,743 maximum dwelling units permitted – 3,093 dwelling built), the letter added.

There are no height limitations for Brickell Key, other than those imposed by the FAA and Miami-Dade Aviation, according to the letter.

The developer is now requesting exemption from Miami-Dade’s Shoreline Review Committee, normally required for waterfront properties.

In a May 18 letter, a representative of the developer wrote that the property at 750 Claughton Island Drive is governed by the Brickell Key DRI, which predates Miami-Dade’s enactment of the Shoreline Ordinance in 1985.

Since the letter was just filed last week the the county, no response has yet been issued.

 

(photo: Phillip Pessar)

 

 

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Anonymous
14 days ago

This is the only design I can see working here, because of it’s one of a kind design and because it expands the green space, and does not reduce the green space. I just think there needs to be pedestrian and bike specific bridges built to give access since most people will be walking for biking into the building.

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Anon Guy
14 days ago

If this is real this will become our “Marina Bay Sands” Flagship

Anonymous
12 days ago

Someone should look into this waiver…smells fishy?..

Man
13 days ago

Looks like a mini Miapolis! I doubt that would happen.

Padel king
13 days ago

Isn’t this design a rendering from an architect and not anything official from Swire?

Anonymous
12 days ago

Why is this being protected from public hearings? All other Swire bldgs there went before UDRB…

Anonymous
11 days ago

Read the article.

Anonymous
14 days ago

No review on design, environmental impact and neighborhood infrastructure requirements, based on a “memo” from over 20 years ago?

anan
14 days ago

Michael Corleone said this, and Michael Corleone said that, so I said sure, sure.

Anonymous
14 days ago

This is going to be huge – literally! Sad to see the Mandarin go if that’s ultimately the case…if itt does then it should be incorporated into the new tower – it’s such a great experience every time!

Anonymous
14 days ago

Yeah it’s the best outside dining experience in Brickell. Hope developers realize the huge shortage of elevated outside experiences, their use to be more and being replaced by buildings. The draw to be in Miami is outside experiences.

Anonymous
14 days ago

Agreed – not to mention the service here is always 5* and its head and shoulders above what typical Miami service looks like.

Anonymous
13 days ago

As far as I understand, the “park” is going, not the hotel.

Cover the Podiums
14 days ago

A supertall building will look out of place here. Prove me wrong.

Anon.
14 days ago

Perhaps if nothing else around it was going up. But when you add citadel, One Brickell city centre, First Miami Presbyterian Church tower to the skyline in the immediate area it will look very much In place especially if you further zoom out in add Waldorf, Hyatt supertall, cipriani , Bacaratt, 1 Southside park, Ytech 1428 Brickell, etc. the entire skyline is going much taller so it will fit right in.

Anonymous
14 days ago

I love all the super talls! We just need to build bike and pedestrian bridges so the walking/biking experience continues to be positive and desirable. It’s one of the main incentives to living in Brickell and invoking new workforce understands and values this.

Archinerd
14 days ago

There are no supertalls in Brickell, nor Miami

Anonymous
14 days ago

Nobody stated there were.

Anonymous
14 days ago

Agree 100%

Anonymous
14 days ago

Bring on all the inventory at once so prices can sharply adjust even for a moment and locals can dip back in its unsustainable for locals!

Anon
14 days ago

The locals will get high paying jobs, and prices will become even more valuable! It’s time to step up to world class economy with top tier salaries and prices.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Prices aren’t coming back down. Interest rates, yes, but Miami real estate is only going up.

Anonymous
13 days ago

I remember when guys like you said that back in 2007.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Open your eyes. The Miami of 2007 is long gone. The secret’s out and everyone is dying to live here. If you are still renting, I’m sorry.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Let me guess, you’ll be cheering for a supertall west of I-95 and whine about the FAA and planning and zoning rules not allowing it.

Anonymous
13 days ago

We have seen FAA and zoning for some areas change recently.

YIMBY
14 days ago

Great news! Let’s get this development going!!

Anonymous
14 days ago

It would be a perfect location for the long-awaited Miami lookout.

Mike
14 days ago

How all those new cars will fit into the bridge, heading to a currently saturated Brickell Avenue? This one, the one behind the church, Baccarat,… about a thousand more daily cars… will be funny to see that

Anon
14 days ago

I imagine a lot of people working here will chose to walk or bike in.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Should be allowed to moor their yachts.

Anon
13 days ago

I imagine most will be driving SUVs in from Kendall and Broward.

Anonymous
14 days ago

If this is concerning to you, get out of your car! We live in a highly urban environment. If you’re complaining about heavy traffic, stop and realize that you, sitting in your car, are a part of the problem.

Anonymous
14 days ago

Exactly! I rarely ever drive in Brickell, everything you could ever need is a 10-15 minute walk! Plus with new development on the east and west side there will be so many more walkable activities and services available 👌

Anon
13 days ago

No one is saying people need transit *within* brickell. It’s regional transit that is the problem…

Anonymous
13 days ago

Sitting in their car, coming from somewhere where they can afford to live on under $200k/yr, going to an office to earn a living, yeah THEY are the problem lol. Must be either a teenager or a trust fundarian to post such dreck. No awareness at all.

Name*
13 days ago

Nobody is a problem. There are lots of affordable great quality places to live along the metro rail and mover lines where people can commute to work here. Also this isn’t the only place people can work. There are offices all around South Florida if people prefer a more suburban lifestyle.

Anonymous
13 days ago

Get off your high horse. The original comment was in reference to new residential buildings attracting more traffic. Nobody, except you, was referring to non-Brickell residents and their supposed need to drive in and out of Brickell every day.

Anonymous
13 days ago

If more people have the option to live within a 15 minute walk or a 30 minute train ride, to work, leisure and personal services—then doesn’t that help reduce traffic for people who have to drive in and out?

Anonymous
13 days ago

It is YOU that needs to get off their HIGH HORSE as you think you can DICTATE who can and cannot drive around your precious Brickell!!!

Anonymous
13 days ago

Nobody is trying to dictate anything. We are saying if traffic is such a problem for you, then stop being an active part of that problem! If you like sitting in traffic, then by all means, do it!

Archinerd
14 days ago

looks like a 5th year architecture student project. The pediment is an in-breed son between a SW storm trooper and a melting wedding rum cake

Sorry
14 days ago

It’s not the real rendering, someone created that

John
13 days ago

Looks 10x more memorable than anything ever proposed or seen in Miami

Anonymous
13 days ago

It needs to be another beaut by Arquitectonica, we know…

Abolish UDRB
14 days ago

Thank god 🙏

Brickell living
13 days ago

Going to have to fight this one, most of my neighbors are against this as well.

Anonymous
13 days ago

How many neighbors do you have to split up the mid-six figure legal bill it’ll take to fight this?

Duh
13 days ago

Pathetic these types of conflicts would even turn into legal bills. If developers designed projects with the community in mind, all those fees could go toward improving quality of the project and City, rather than a few lawyers operating accounts.

Anonymous
13 days ago

You must be new here. No matter what the developers propose, there is a budding NIMBY movement in Brickell that will oppose ANY AND ALL new development unless that development is a public park. Look no further than Abby Ape and her Brickell Homeowners group.

Anonymous
13 days ago

I’d rather see new development, but also like to see community and public enhancements that don’t turn back on the public. The best risk mitigation strategy is to develop a project the public will love so even if a nimby comes along the public will still appreciate the thoughtful design and improvements for the neighborhood and city.

Dmitry
12 days ago

I think Wattson Island would be a much better fit for this type of development.

@sevasg
14 days ago

This ruins the quaint Brickell key. Too much magnitude for the secluded area away from all the busy Brickell. I am 100% against it. Design dosen’t blend well with the Brickell key area. This is why developers get a bad name.

Mo
13 days ago

What’s the point of redoing it if it’s going to be another basic looking building?

Anonymous
13 days ago

Swire gets a bad name?

Anonymous
13 days ago

I’m 100% in favor of it. Brickell Key was not imagined as some secluded area away from busy Brickell. It’s merely another section of busy Brickell.

Anon
13 days ago

It was imagined as a single family residence community and was called Claughton Island, but I can see how imaginations have changed over the decades.

Bob
14 days ago

City needs to mobilize against this, pass a proposition to ban this development. Like any city should not be anything goes. Mayor is in the developers pockets, voters need to block this.

Bob
14 days ago

Voters should launch a proposition against this.

Anonymous
13 days ago

You’ll have as much luck as those peckers pestering me in a Publix parking lot to sign a slippery slope petition of support legalizing weed.

Brickell living
13 days ago

Yes! We are organizing against this!

Anonymous
13 days ago

And many of us will fight back against you! You do not represent all Brickell homeowners.